Discourses of Brexit by Veronika Koller;Susanne Kopf;Marlene Miglbauer; & Susanne Kopf & Marlene Miglbauer

Author:Veronika Koller;Susanne Kopf;Marlene Miglbauer; & Susanne Kopf & Marlene Miglbauer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2019-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

Corbyn’s ‘people’ and ‘the many’ vs ‘the few’

The analysis presented in the following section is based on a dataset of 98 speeches, public statements and newspaper articles by Corbyn in the period from 1 February 2016 to 31 December 2017. The texts were collected from https://jeremycorbyn.org.uk and https://labourlist.org, currently the most extensive collections of Corbyn’s texts. This section will assess the nomination strategies (Fairclough, 2014; Reisigl & Wodak, 2016) employed by Corbyn in the definition of the key collective signifier of populism as identified by most literature on the subject (Mudde, 2004; Canovan, 2005; Laclau, 2005; Mudde & Kaltwasser, 2012): the ‘people’. The first part of this section focuses on Corbyn’s texts during the referendum campaign, while the second part is devoted to his post-referendum rhetoric, leading up to and following the 2017 General Election. I argue that although Corbyn publicly supported Remain, populist tropes otherwise associated with the discourse of the Leave campaign played a key role in his rhetoric during this two-year period. Specifically, the ‘people’ vs ‘elite’ dichotomy, which characterised the populist discourse at the basis of the Brexit campaign, was complemented, in Corbyn’s post-referendum discourse, by the ‘many’ vs the ‘few’ dichotomy, a Manichean opposition that became the key theme of the Labour campaign for the 2017 General Election.

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